Socrates

If we can only trust personal experience, how come fear feels so real no matter if someone intellectually understands it is a thought? Is it possible to transcend fear if you are not able to have a nondual state of consciousness meaning a monkey-chatter-free mind? Does the mechanism of fear apply to all common mental health issues like anxiety, OCD, insecurity and so on? After you manage to transcend fear intellectually, how do you cleanse your body of 10+ years of habitual fear? Even if someone understands that in order for fear to exist there has to be a thought, how can he bring awareness to this mechanism and start to dismantle it instead of acting out unconscious patterns? What is the relation of fear with low self-esteem and lack of confidence? How does a person that has transcended fear act like or is it an inherently internal state? Which are the internal (state) and external (behavioral) consequences of transcending fear?

@Leo Gura I am aware of the issue but have you thought that this overcautious attitude potentially postponed your tour for example? Do you have any updates on "Actualized Tour Coming Soon To A City Near You"? You either do something or you don't, if you don't you accept the status quo which is unconsciousness if you do you risk for misinterpretation and devilry. The game is rigged.

@Leo Gura The sneaky thing is that this is a fear which is actively preventing you from going a step further. Let's do those in-person events you mentioned a while back and see what happens. I bet many conscious businesses could be created by such events but if we are afraid this is gonna be a cult we cut ourselves short.

@Leo Gura Really conservative approach of yours. On the one hand yes it is true that teachings get corrupted after the master is long gone but there is no other alternative of bringing to the table spirituality in a society that has lost its touch with spirit. It is like going to learn piano or martial arts and calling the teacher "dogmatic" because he has a certain procedure of teaching you. The biggest difference between Jesus and Sadhguru is that Isha is a step by step process that makes people more conscious. On the other hand, Jesus just shared his insights and they were massively misinterpreted. It is like WW2, it had to happen in order for the collective consciousness to evolve but on a meta-perspective. Realizing that Sadhguru is not only conscious but has a great understanding of the process of becoming so through Yoga and temples. Let's not be mistaken, these temples are exactly like psychedelics, they are technology, they are tools. Some people become more conscious through psychedelics some through the attendance of consecrated temples. The overall progress of the collective consciousness through these technologies outweighs the potential negative effects.

@tsuki This is actually a tricky question because many times when you experience physical pain it is a result of mental suffering you yourself create by misinterpreting an event as negative and then producing physical pain to yourself. And then you ask yourself why does my chest feel like that? And you've missed the fact that you JUST created that sensation unconsciously. This mistakenly is classified as physical pain although it is not actual physical pain like someone cutting your finger of which doesn't require any mental gymnastics to produce. At the deepest levels of consciousness, all that used to be pain becomes just a sensation be it mental or physical. It just occurs a recontextualization of the feeling. This is the way I assume even Ralston can have teeth surgery without any amount of pain.

@Leo Gura Now you are getting sloppy, if you are not 24/7 in a nondual state this is just fantasy and you are deluding yourself instead of resolving the issue step by step and deconstructing your actual emotions and suffering. If you didnt live in duality you wouldn't suffer, you would be enlightened on a sober state. Realize that if you experience suffering right now, that is all there is, and all your nondual memories fly out the window. That is also a trap of psychedelics since you don't grow gradually but that is another can of worms. If you actually observe your present experience there actually only 2 kinds of suffering, mental and physical. I have not transcended physical suffering yet as Ralston has done (which he says you create that too) but let's focus on the mental one. Since it is your own construction for your own survival you need to slowly deconstruct it and get an actual insight on suffering itself as the thing I am describing here. So why do we create suffering? At the end of the day, mental suffering is an attachment to thoughts and feelings without realizing the mechanism behind the whole process. After putting some awareness on this mechanism we realize that it goes like this: event -> negative thought -> suffering. This whole process happens automatically and most people think suffering is normal but it is not, it happens unconsciously since there is no space in between these 3 events. Confusing insight with just duality and smearing it like that is the ultimate delusion.

Meanwhile, 4 states cancel republican primaries LOL

@Leo Gura You are just downplaying spiritual masters. There are only 2 types of suffering mental and physical. And you don't even need an awakening to get rid of the mental suffering since you create it yourself. So how do you suffer? Physical suffering is another story.

"Fight for the light of consciousness" -Elon Musk I think we have greatly misunderstood Elon musk as just an Orange-Green type of businessman as @Leo Gura often says. No words of consciousness and love would be spoken by a materialist.

@Shiva The thing is that consciousness doesn't mean anything for a materialist. You need at least some amount of insight to even use that word. Also about charities, even if they are a PR move they still give away money. There is a big difference on a Grant Cardone type of businessman and a more greenish type of businessman.

The human mind is something else. It is so easy to backwards rationalize anything you want without even noticing how you deceive yourself

You can always re-record it Epistemology book coming soon?

The self-bias and self-deception is strong in this one

I seriously doubt he is enlightened but at least he promotes meditation to the young.

@Leo Gura Are you constantly in a monkey-chatter-free mind? What is your baseline level of consciousness in a sober state nowadays?

All fourteen AR-15-type rifles were outfitted with bump fire stocks that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire rapidly, simulating fully-automatic gunfire on the Las Vegas shooting.

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@Leo GuraI cant login at all either

@Matt8800 What are some common hints people with undeveloped paranormal abilities get, to develop them?

@Bodigger Counter-intuitively owning any weapon makes you less safe overall so that argument is off the table. By having laws in place that allow YOU to own a gun to "protect" yourself and your family, you enable the crazy guy owning a gun as well and guess what this is a lot worse than neither of you having any gun. The latest las vegas shooting didn't have one AR but 21 suitcases of both AR's and lots of ammo. It is unreasonable being able to own AR's let alone such a quantity of them. Also, the Orlando nightclub shooting involved an AR. At the very least if you have to have a gun, a pistol is just fine you don't need such caliber type of weapon, it is over the top. If you actually investigate the biggest mass shootings they all involved an AR-type of weapon, this is a red flag. At the end of the day, guns wouldn't be a problem if you didn't have so many radicals fueled with racism and hatred in America. You see when the media and the president radicalize naive and ignorant people against Mexicans, gays and blacks, the fool sees it as a good move to go out and kill a bunch of those people. This is the root of the issue and the only longterm solution is quality education. It is no coincidence the average Trump voter fits perfectly the American stereotype of a Texas redneck

This is a big issue making therapy inconsistent. I can't trust a therapist that doesn't have basic self development knowledge let alone spirituality. If you could gurantee everyone, no matter the shithole country they live, that they could get excellent treatment by great therapist then I am all down for it. But it is utopian. On the other hand an Lsd tab is an lsd tab no matter where you are in the world.

@Bodigger Ofcourse, other countries don't have massively available AR weapons for the public to purchase but that is not the case in the US. Since we have to start from where we are the fact is that there are 400 Million guns in America and it will be nearly impossible to get into the houses of Americans and take them. So we need heavy regulation of AR's and tier 2 guns, make them illegal and harden the critiria for people who want to own even pistols. This is relatively easy to implement for people that don't own any guns yet but really challenging for preowned guns that are already at people's homes since they won't be willing to give them up.

@Paul92 The fact is you speak about stuff you don't consciously understand, judging from theory land and hearsay and that's how it is supposed to be. -Yo dude LA is lit, have you ever been there? (you)- LA is a human construct, blablabla... Do you see the absardity of that statement? Now replace LA with Truth and ta-da! Your cup is just not empty and thats how the mind works to mask our inherent not-knowing. You can either go or not go but it IS and it Will always BE

Lol leo, I literally said that in my last trip report and highlighted the fact that you don't distinguish the two stages of triping! Stage 1 - Shadow integration Stage 2 - Existential triping This topic needs to be covered extensively in a "suffering" or shadow" video since it is so fundemental.

Replace all basic level jobs a monkey could do with machines. Instead of saving the salary, a really high percentage (70% to 90%) of the salary you used to give to the person that did the job goes as tax to the government. This way it's win-win for both government and company.